Where was Out of Africa filmed?

This sweeping, Oscar-laden romance is steeped in the light and landscape of colonial-era East Africa, and its love of the country's wide horizons leaps off the screen. For travellers it works as both a love letter to Kenya and a genuine itinerary, since the real places behind the story are still there to be visited today.

The film's emotional horizon is the Ngong Hills, a gentle ridgeline outside Nairobi whose rolling silhouette becomes the resting place at the heart of the story. Below them stands the writer's real farmhouse, now the Karen Blixen Museum, preserving the home and the African years that inspired the original memoir. Together the hills and the house anchor the romance in a real, reachable corner of Kenya.

Both sites sit just outside Nairobi, making them an easy and rewarding excursion at the start or end of a Kenyan safari. Visit the museum to walk the grounds and rooms behind the story, then drive up to the Ngong Hills for the long views the film made famous. Pair it with the country's celebrated reserves further afield for the full sweep of the landscape on screen.